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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 1

  1. Center of mass question
  2. Methanol in water
  3. Sodium acetate heating pads
  4. The Relative Passage of Time
  5. Simvastatin toxicity
  6. Huge sinkholes in Guatemala
  7. Crayfish
  8. tendinosis or tendonitis?
  9. What's a "Twin Cylinder Reversible Turbine"?
  10. force
  11. Sima Martel and Sima Humboldt
  12. Mafeking Oil - obsolete veterinary preparation
  13. Live bacteria in food
  14. Gull wings
  15. Stukas
  16. Sinkhole

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 2

  1. Decaffeinated coffee acclimatisation
  2. Different kinds of cold?
  3. "Dirty dozen" fruits and vegetables
  4. Terraformation of Mars
  5. Linde's chaotic inflation: why only one level of bubble universes?
  6. Lake Okeechobee
  7. Reverse jet filter - pressure drop
  8. mortality percent
  9. Oxidation of copper by iron(III) chloride
  10. drug interaction checking
  11. Remote sensing and GIS
  12. History of Science: What did Islamic Science invent or discover?
  13. density of liquid mixture
  14. plumbers putty
  15. Trigonal Bipyramidal Molecular Geometry
  16. What are we seeing when we look at the sun?
  17. Contents of Organic Pesticide

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 3

  1. Propagation of bloodline
  2. Chemical solution for producing infrared liquid.
  3. Cooking oil contamination?
  4. Water boiling question
  5. Weller soldering
  6. cold fusion
  7. variations of h2o
  8. interactions of colloidal gold
  9. Reduction potential of selenium
  10. cell phone

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 4

  1. How does a battery-less moisture-meter work?
  2. Does Synthetic Vanillin / Vanilla contain Alcohol
  3. Mercury and Dental Fillings
  4. Technological family tree.
  5. RESOLVED! -- Houseplant identification please... -- RESOLVED!
  6. Oil floating under water
  7. Doorbell Continually Hums or Buzzes
  8. The difference between fire and plasma
  9. Archimedes principle???
  10. Why did my bonfire burn 'blue'?

June 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 5

  1. Reduction potential for nitrate
  2. Who first hypothesized/discovered/elucidated gluconeogenesis?
  3. Brass
  4. Asa Gray and John Edward Gray
  5. Brass (30% Zinc and 70% Copper)
  6. Information on Planting lilies in green house
  7. Deepwater Horizon valves
  8. Nature/environment/biotope
  9. Energy efficient of distillation
  10. Beer question
  11. Vegetable cooking oils - two groups of questions
  12. Standard Atmosphere...
  13. tobacco

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 6

  1. Can the Deepwater Horizon oil spill slow or even stop the ocean conveyor?
  2. Plugging holes in ducts
  3. Lee Smollin: author of "baby universe" book, adversary of multiverse? huh?
  4. BBC Report
  5. Space travel
  6. How can using algae to make fuel be net energy positive?
  7. Iron(III) acetate
  8. chloroform mishap
  9. Size of Rhinovirus
  10. Private Moon base...

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 7

  1. Avalanches
  2. Lithium phosphide cell
  3. Elder people
  4. Neural basis of learning
  5. CNG engines and simple engines
  6. Eye Structure Of Toads
  7. gravitation
  8. ph
  9. Twin Paradox - How will be the pulse count of the traveling twin?
  10. What determines the frame of referance for spinning?
  11. Production of phosphine and glow from white phosphorus
  12. Why can't we get energy for free from a magnet?
  13. What are corn syrup solids?
  14. Straight lines in Nature
  15. How could moth sleep in day?
  16. Columbia nuclear fission vs. Chicago Pile-1
  17. whitening armpits
  18. Mystery not-quite-electrical component
  19. Unable to focus camera beyond certain zoom
  20. why don't tertiary amines react with acyl chlorides?
  21. Pendulum
  22. Melting points of various ionic solids
  23. Fusion reactors... what the hell.
  24. hard wood floors
  25. Spaceship without windows

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 8

  1. Sparrows are Lousy Parents
  2. NFPA 704
  3. Bicycles and biomechanics...
  4. how does water eat thru polyurethane thou?
  5. titanium
  6. color of elements
  7. Fox mauling baby - motivation?
  8. Annihilation
  9. Hexamminecobalt(III) ion
  10. Clay
  11. Sapphire Windows
  12. anyone familiar with saccharides and gold nanorod aggregation?
  13. Electrical Doubt Clarifying
  14. Eating rotten eggs
  15. Rhino Virus and Nanometers
  16. Molecular compexity
  17. Naturally Occuring Dendrimers
  18. Pikachurin
  19. Cobalt(II) hydroxide solubility
  20. Extract From Dry Ingredients?

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 9

  1. Lightbulb question
  2. Nodules on high tension lines
  3. Red liquid in sprinkler
  4. Titanium Cup
  5. Muntjacs
  6. Curved horizon?
  7. Vernier calipers
  8. Photons
  9. Mushroom cloud
  10. Endurance of an unused automobile
  11. how to functionalise a carbohydrate with acetylene?
  12. Blue and red cobalt(II) hydroxide
  13. using a car 12 volt alternator as a generator when its removed from the car
  14. Question about birth change
  15. Sinkhole debris
  16. Cobalt compounds yet again!!!
  17. Phenol

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 10

  1. Crystal Glass
  2. Growing fruits & vegetables indoors...
  3. Pikachurin 3D structure
  4. What if... we're the only intelligent life
  5. Interesting properties of acetic acid
  6. Tiger question (not about the big striped cat)
  7. baking soda
  8. question on cars and automated transmission...
  9. Sapphire Question
  10. indoor door frames
  11. glycemic load determination
  12. the best it could be?
  13. nothingness
  14. Can we have more Lay explanations for phenomena under the physics heading?
  15. Do fish get mardy?
  16. Chloroform

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 11

  1. hollow core door
  2. Katla eruption VEI
  3. Energy numbers to open a black hole
  4. if someone is scared into not riding in automobiles OR scared into not smoking, which would improve their mortality more?
  5. Infra-terrestrial species
  6. Gyromagnetic ratio of mesons
  7. Sentience/consciousness
  8. Spoof SETI
  9. Etching on the cheap
  10. Windmill on a car ?
  11. Protein breakdown for energy... trigger?
  12. Right Handed Dominance
  13. energy harvesting is so stupid
  14. Ant stamina

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 12

  1. Atomic mass unit
  2. Tornado recurrence rate
  3. Female Survival
  4. A transverse wave
  5. Computer components from petrochemicals
  6. heat
  7. BP gulf oil issue: Geology question
  8. Cats and mirrors
  9. Breathable boots
  10. Grass in flower beds
  11. gear box vs belt pulley
  12. Vellus hair
  13. How to get a sponsorship
  14. Using sea water in toilets
  15. Watering plants
  16. brushed nickel
  17. Rechargeable Battery: voltage rebound
  18. Cauterization as an emergency measure

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 13

  1. Flaming blood
  2. Wouldn't humankind be capable of surviving an overacting solar flare after all?
  3. virus more active during rainy season?
  4. Maximum/Minimum Irradiance..?
  5. is risk from smoking linear with amount smoked?
  6. Primary afferent axons
  7. Ruth's Chris Steak House
  8. Allium Care
  9. Dog whistles.
  10. Nuclear fusion physics and tokamak reactor design: from the ground up.
  11. formaldehyde
  12. Body hair
  13. Ploughing a field with dogs

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 14

  1. Synthroid versus Armor thyroid
  2. Rifling and slower bullets
  3. Why did SI standardize the mole?
  4. Old medical terms
  5. why water form fountain as it goes up?
  6. B2O3
  7. Sliver nano
  8. (Cr - Pt)
  9. Relativity
  10. C L I
  11. The web page below needs to be updated with the correct new information regarding the list of SVHC's.
  12. How does pre-birth gender selection work?
  13. Birdsong Study
  14. How hot am I ?
  15. Explosion
  16. soy
  17. Definition of Horology???

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 15

  1. Help resolve date discrepancy of an event by finding contemporaneous citation(s)
  2. laxatives
  3. Digital Camera
  4. Nanostructure induced flavorings
  5. Blackberry Vs I Phone
  6. meringue food technology
  7. Instability of Manganese(III) fluoride
  8. Bats, birds and convergent evolution
  9. question about the supernova
  10. Beer nutritious
  11. Transplanted lungs
  12. clump of matter
  13. Definition of "Earth's surface" for purposes of defining meteorites
  14. Memory
  15. matter versus spirit
  16. "Microrefineries" in the Gulf states
  17. Carbon-based life more plentiful if system richer in Carbon?
  18. Hummingbird feeders
  19. why doesn't centrifugation do some major damage to live cells?
  20. Isolating elemental silicon
  21. reducing agents milder than NaBH4
  22. using one aldehyde to reduce another aldehyde (product: alcohol and carboxylic acid)
  23. Unknown concentration of NaOH

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 16

  1. What value is associated with "low impedance"?
  2. Atom with some muons
  3. overcharging a handycam or mobile phone battery
  4. yawning + stretching euphoria
  5. Will poppy seeds in processed horse feed test false positive for Synephrine in the urine or could slippery elm bark powder contain Synephrine.
  6. Volume of a drop
  7. ~ (Tobacco vs. other illegal, recreational drugs)
  8. Regrowing of human skin and its color
  9. A display that doesn't suffer from glare
  10. Conservation of energy
  11. Spider indentification
  12. Protein percentage in muscle by mass
  13. Stronger reducing agent than azide
  14. Strongest base
  15. How can I make it not possible to throw things
  16. The telomeres of Turritopsis nutricula
  17. Number of deep sea oil rigs worldwide
  18. Cumberland Slider Turtles
  19. Is it fair to say that Nuclear Power plants are environmentally friendly?
  20. star classification

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 17

  1. Lapping water
  2. tuna as cat food
  3. Rigid airships vertical control
  4. How do they test for performance enhancing drugs in an atheletes urine?
  5. Alumin(i)um
  6. Metals used by the human body
  7. Plasma weapons
  8. papers
  9. Antimatter
  10. help with Gaussian fitting and airy disks
  11. IP Address
  12. EMP
  13. (where) do humans fit in?

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 18

  1. Angle grinder -lidl/aldi/netto
  2. conservation of PH
  3. Mobile phones in supermarkets
  4. Life on mars
  5. Radio Interference on a 'dead' radio.
  6. breasts full of milk
  7. Why are there no Herring Gulls in Hampshire?
  8. Immunosuppression drugs -> skin like tissue paper?
  9. Sodium bromide as salt substitute
  10. Windmill on an airplane
  11. Does abstinence cure any addiction?
  12. 'natural' alkyl halides?
  13. Amino acids in a vegan diet
  14. Natural sea salt
  15. Organic Materials
  16. Blossoms and leaves: coming and going
  17. Why is the speed of light relative to an observer constant regardless of the velocity of the source of light or of the observer?
  18. Paper cuts vs. "normal" cuts
  19. semiconductor doping

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 19

  1. Ammonia
  2. Production of carbon tetrachloride
  3. Potato Chips
  4. sperm sorting
  5. why do gas (petrol) stations have the same characteristic roof over the filling area?
  6. Spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma
  7. Simulator
  8. Radioactive minerals on other planets?
  9. Purpose of Addiction
  10. Experiments in quantum mechanics?

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 20

  1. Oxidation of antimony
  2. Why don't Harleys ever have headlamps in other shapes?
  3. smelly vitamins.
  4. butterfly / moth
  5. uv / urine
  6. Risk of catastrophic methane explosion in Gulf of Mexico
  7. Why is the power output of a series-connect array of solar cells so affected by partial shading?
  8. Remote video camera
  9. Seeing the past
  10. Ammonia-based life

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 21

  1. How the planet and why is divided to different countries; who made this? God, humans or nature?
  2. Exploration of the ocean bed
  3. the supernova
  4. No antimony nitrate
  5. animal tool use
  6. if I sterilise my kitchen knife with the flame from my gas stove, will I ruin it?
  7. Tin(II) hydroxide and related compounds
  8. is it possible to fool a plant cell into thinking a gold nanoparticle is a starch particle?
  9. effect of color of iris on image formation
  10. wood
  11. Cell disruption, movement proteins and apoptosis
  12. Amount of water that "sticks" to dipped object.
  13. Operating of Transverse flux motor
  14. CALORIE BURN RATE FOR EXERCISE
  15. Faraday cage from water?
  16. Bacteria in Spoiled Milk

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 22

  1. basic physics question about inertia, riding the bus, balance, etc.
  2. A few more questions on quantum mechanics.
  3. Fossil fish
  4. Geophysics survey
  5. Potato battery
  6. monofilament cutting string
  7. Inner asteroid belt?
  8. Ferrofluid heart assist jacket?
  9. Metal mesh interfere with WiFi signal?
  10. power electronics
  11. Cheetah attacks
  12. saltation velocity vs choking velocity
  13. Dense phase flow vs dilute phase flow
  14. Petroleum detergent in Dawn
  15. any way to get plant cells to grow along a surface?
  16. terminal velocity of flour?
  17. Latitude
  18. RDA percentage for calories
  19. The psychology of hog drivers
  20. Absorption of sugars and carbs
  21. what is a "thin cell layer explant"? (TCL)
  22. human brain and language
  23. Fiber Optic Duplex Communication
  24. culturing pollen tubes
  25. Does sulfuric acid ignite matches?

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 23

  1. Dingman mouth gag
  2. Alkyd Resin Paint
  3. Temperature of water in Kettle
  4. Photon exists? or just a Concept?
  5. Probability in Quantum Mechanics
  6. Cr-V
  7. Zombies
  8. Bioavailability of iron
  9. Attracting flies to my fly paper
  10. A type of memory disorder
  11. sodium borohydride and hydrogen peroxide
  12. Delayed death after serious injury
  13. Identify wasp or insect

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 24

  1. Thrust vectoring
  2. Difference of animals
  3. Grebe
  4. Piezoelectric body armor?
  5. TO220 heat sinking
  6. astrophotography with the webcam
  7. Strange parrot behaviour
  8. finite element
  9. Spacetime and diverging timelines - not really a question, just a request for more information
  10. how many g's can a gourmet salad be subjected to without being ruined?
  11. breakup/thinning of plant calluses into solution via ultrasound/high-frequency sonication
  12. pros and cons of immortality

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 25

  1. Probability distributions in Quantum Mechanics
  2. scientific name of the plant( ?or substance?) called "Lapland sesame" in the Wikipedi- article about hand of glory
  3. Measurment change by interacting
  4. DIY inspection camera
  5. paint and primer in one
  6. Is it possible to clean a pool with just Baking Soda and Bleach?
  7. query regarding B.TECH
  8. Big cases of correct theories largely ignored because they came from amateurs
  9. Ants in my vacuum cleaner
  10. Urologists
  11. Memory
  12. Silicone solvent?

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 26

  1. Cobalt (III) oxide
  2. Alpha Centauri at 1 G acceleration
  3. Production of Mn oxide
  4. Ion nomenclature
  5. Eating late leads to weight gain?
  6. Sensing colours
  7. toxic to fish ?
  8. Life expectancy in the UK
  9. Calcium Hypochlorite
  10. Relatively high incidence of lactose tolerance in Spaniards
  11. automotive question
  12. Opal vs clear in old incandescent bulbs
  13. Power supply to the town sewage works

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 27

  1. endocrine disruptors
  2. Fan curve derivation
  3. 'Metallic conduction' in non metals
  4. Metallic appearance
  5. Can woodlice breath underwater?
  6. oysters
  7. Switching mobile phones while flying.
  8. Superoxide reactivity
  9. Ants
  10. Scientific term for species who don't take care of their young.
  11. Flying wings

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 28

  1. Listed ingredients
  2. Sigma additivity in quantum mechanics
  3. Signal processing
  4. Quantam Handwaveing
  5. Wind chill and perspiration
  6. Pitot tube constant
  7. Contents of Cold Pack
  8. documentary
  9. Do OLED displays degrade with UV exposure?
  10. Most toxic element
  11. High level nuclear waste
  12. wormholes
  13. Battery chemistry labs
  14. Photonic computers
  15. Least dangerous compound
  16. Applications of Wormholes
  17. asteroid mining
  18. Getting rid of freezer odour
  19. On swallowing food items larger than one's own head...
  20. NFPA 704
  21. evolutionary history of apoptosis and vertebrate immune systems
  22. anywhere I can buy movement protein?
  23. Ancient lead

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 29

  1. Polaroid film powered radio...
  2. Double slit prob
  3. Einstein twin paradox confusion
  4. Sumo
  5. "Chronical outfit of disposition" - jargon or gibberish
  6. Blended wing bodies
  7. Are dogs capable of love?
  8. free radicals
  9. Manganese
  10. Making Fatty Acid Methyl Esters
  11. General anesthetic
  12. Tin(II) sulfide formation
  13. Mercury(I) oxide
  14. what are these strange holes in the ground in afghanistan?
  15. Soreness from a Shot
  16. Where did this stupid idea that investment is a trade-off between risk and returns come from?
  17. Name these plants?
  18. Stopping time in a fall on concrete
  19. What are the worms that create this red moss formation

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 30

  1. Are sodium chloride crystals always square?
  2. Drugs
  3. why does my sink solution turn cloudy when I add baking powder to it?
  4. reason of raining
  5. V-tails
  6. Chromosome Location
  7. Telescope Eyepiece
  8. Make more time
  9. Fabry-Perot filter
  10. Why do cars go slower in reverse than they do going forward?
  11. Acidity of warm water
  12. I tried to sanitise my potato peeler by sonicating it in acetone
  13. Parasite?
  14. how to remove cuticle from a leaf?
  15. Extinct Volcanoes in North America and Asia.
  16. which type of plant cells (and species) tends to have the biggest / most permissive plasmodesmata
  17. Do any nonhuman animals possess a conscience?
  18. Neutron star vs. quark star vs. black hole